My uncle Ted Kennedy was the leading spokesman against the Iraq war. And now the Democratic Party is the party of war. It's the party party of Dick Cheney, who wrote, and John Bolton, who together wrote the Patriot Act, which began the dismantling of the American Constitution. the permission for the first time for the CIA to spy on the American public. We were the party that was skeptical and suspicious and hostile to the CIA. (33:22–33:32)
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Asserts that the Patriot Act, authored by Cheney and Bolton, undermined constitutional rights.
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